05/18/2009
IDAHO: All Over the World, People are Proud to be Gay
Kenneth Tan of Gays.com sent us this video put together in honor of yesterday's International Day Against Homophobia & Transphobia (IDAHO). Involved in its making are 359 people from 48 countries around the world.
"We are overwhelmed and, at the same time, humbled by this torrent of enthusiastic support that has poured in from all four corners of the world since we kickstarted the video project in April," said Louis-Georges Tin, founder of the IDAHO committee, "People have made the effort to go to such places as the Statue of Liberty, the Great Wall of China, the Sydney Opera House, the Golden Gate Bridge, the Merlion, the Petronas Twin Towers and the Eiffel Tower to shoot their video, contributing to the spectacular visual feast you see in the mashup."
Tan reports that on May 15th, Gays.com experienced a massive distributed denial of service DDoS attack by hackers in an attempt to disrupt the launch of its campaign.
Watch the video, AFTER THE JUMP...
Posted 12:06 PM EST by Andy Towle in Gay Rights, IDAHO, News | Permalink
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that was beautiful
Posted by: will | May 18, 2009 12:17:11 PM
Amazing!
Posted by: Jeff | May 18, 2009 12:24:08 PM
Can you provide a link to the original video? I can't see it here.
Posted by: Joseph | May 18, 2009 1:12:22 PM
Just thinking what Harvey Milk would think if he watched that. Nice.
Posted by: Kugel | May 18, 2009 2:35:32 PM
I like this video! It's great to see people around the world participating in this. We need more cool projects like this one!
Posted by: Alan | May 18, 2009 3:17:47 PM
what's the remedy for the denial of service from the hackers? They'll get away scot free? Is anyone tracking that? Is that a hate crime now that federal legislation went thru last week? Whose got answers, people?!
Posted by: Daniel | May 18, 2009 7:30:58 PM